Wednesday, 02 September 2015.

Leaders To Discuss Shift To Energy Productivity As New Driver of Economic Growth And Solution To Climate Change

London. September 2, 2015. On 9th September 2015, the 5th B4E Climate Summit in London will convene more than 300 global leaders from business, government and international agencies to discuss transformation in energy productivity and explore how this can drive economic growth and prosperity. Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, Energy and Climate Change, will open the second day of the two-day Summit. Tony Gourlay, CEO of Global Initiatives, the event organiser says: "With our partners for this event we aim to take the energy efficiency dialogue to another level and shift the focus from incremental to transformational change. Energy productivity can be a real driver of global productivity and economic growth, and help solve climate change."The theme of energy productivity is gathering strong momentum in the lead up to the Summit. Kornelis Blok, Director of Science at Ecofys, co-organiser of the Summit, states that: “Doubling energy productivity would reduce the global fossil fuel bill by more than €2 trillion and could create more than six million jobs globally by 2020. We should not underestimate the powerful impacts that improvements to energy productivity can have on global productivity and prosperity.”

Organised in partnership between Global Initiatives, Ecofys, The Climate Group, Forum for the Future and WWF-UK, and supported by Eneco, Philips, Navigant, and ClimateWorks, participants in working groups will produce recommendations for increasing energy productivity across buildings, transport, and manufacturing. These recommended actions for industry, policy makers and civil society will be shared during the the G20 meetings in Turkey and COP21 climate conference in Paris later this year.

Some of the prominent leaders speaking at the Summit include:

Lord Bourne, of Aberystwyth, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, Energy and Climate Change